September 2006

9/30/06 MTI stock soars in day Heavy trading in issue follows speculation about a major military fuel cell deal Albany Times Union
9/29/06 Lt. Governor Visits Wal-Mart Distribution Center Using Cellex Fuel Cells Cellex
9/29/06 MKTY trading up as much as 45% as high as $1.89
9/29/06 Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers "MKTY 17.7% HIGHER; Citigroup analyst expects new announcement on military milestone in coming weeks, highlights renewed Gillette and Samsung agreement and says, 'we see material upside to the shares from current trading levels.'" StreetInsider.com
9/29/06 Position paper of European energy and automotive companies on "Next Steps for the Development of a Hydrogen Infrastructure for Road Transport in Europe" HyWeb
9/28/06 Drivers to test hydrogen-fueled cars BMW, GM to tap stars, regular folk Chicago Tribune
9/28/06 Mobile Computing: Laptop Battery Safety, Part 2 Medis PC World
9/28/06 Toyota 'less optimistic' over hydrogen car development Adfero via FCT
9/28/06 Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells Test Successfully Franklin Fuel Cell PC Magazine via ABC News
9/2006 Hydrogen And Fuel Cells Safety NHA
9/28/06 IBM, Lenovo recall half a million batteries "made by Sony" bizjournals.com
9/28/06 Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. Names Chief Operating Officer Robert P. Morrison
9/28/06 MCEL, MKTY, HYGS, QTWW, DESC trade or close at new 52-week (or longer) lows
9/28/06 Engine on a chip drives laptops "It is one of the most hotly contested and closely watched areas of research - how to provide the most efficient energy source for the mobile devices we carry with us." BBC
9/28/06 ZAFC Power Performance Targets Achieved Power Air Corporation
9/28/06 Race to make clean, fuel-sipping cars revs up Honda pushes clean diesels. GM takes big step with hydrogen. But can anybody outdo gas-electric hybrids? Christian Science Monitor
9/27/06 MDTL trading up over 11% as high as $22.70; HYGS trading at all time lows as low as $1.30; MCEL trading at new 52-week low as low as $1.05; MKTY trading at new multi-year low as low as $1.39
9/27/06 H2FC Table of Short Positionas as of 9/15/06
9/27/06 General Motors and U.S. Postal Service Agree to Expand Testing Program of Fuel Cell Delivery Vehicles Medialink and General Motors
9/27/06 2 hydrogen plants proposed for Westchester area "Shell oil company would build the facility and fuel pump at the Kensico Avenue garage to supply three Toyota cars and two General Motors trucks at no cost to the city. Shell would donate the fuel, and the city has applied for a $324,000 grant from the state to buy the five vehicles." The Journal News
9/26/06 Contract signed for two new fuel-cell submarines for the German Navy ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG
9/27/06 DOE Backs Australia's Eden Energy For Hydrogen Fuel Test
9/27/06 Energy Conversion Devices Announces Corporate Governance Initiatives "increase the authorized common shares from 50 million to 100 million"
9/27/06 Zinc Matrix Power, Inc. Unveils Silver-Zinc Rechargeable Battery Technology as a Safe Alternative to Traditional Lithium-Ion Batteries New Aqueous-Based Battery Technology Contains No Flammable Liquid for Ignition and Explosion and Offers Significant Advantages in Performance and Reusability
9/27/06 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 9/15/06 nasdaq.com
9/27/06 ECD's Central Analytical Laboratory Achieves ISO 17025 Laboratory Specific Accreditation
9/27/06 Ceres Power director Fitzgibbons lifts holding "has bought 20,000 shares in the company at 219 pence each" AFX
9/27/06 Protonex Accelerates Plan to Introduce Reformer-Based Products
9/27/06 Postal Service Expands Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Testing to West Coast; East Coast Testing Extended Another Year U.S. Postal Service
9/27/06 GM, U.S. Post extend deal to test fuel cell mail vans "for another year as well as test a second fuel cell vehicle in Irvine" Reuters
9/26/06 MDTL Short position up 457,394 shares to 7,326,248 nasdaqtrader.com
9/21/06 The Next Step: Conversion to the Solar Hydrogen Economy EnergyPulse
9/26/06 MKTY closes at new 2.5-year low $1.66
9/26/06 MCEL trades at new 52-week low $1.10
9/26/06 Energy Conversion Devices Announces the Appointment of Two New Members to Its Board of Directors "ay announced the appointments of two new independent directors to its Board of Directors, Pasquale Pistorio, the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of STMicroelectronics, and George A. Schreiber, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of SEMCO Energy, Inc."
9/26/06 Ener1 Group Names Victor Mendes Chairman "Victor Mendes . . . spent nearly a decade working with GE in the conglomerate's Industrial Systems division and at GE FANUC Automation Corporation, a joint venture between GE and FANUC LTD of Japan."
9/25/06 Quantum Signs Agreement With Miljo Innovasjon of Norway to Pursue Joint Venture for Electric Vehicle Production
9/25/06 PolyFuel: Interim Results for the Six Month Period ending 30 June 2006 "addition
of three new customers during the period, bringing the total to 15, the majority of which are world-leading consumer electronics companies"
9/25/06 Ceres Power Holdings plc: Preliminary results for the twelve months ended 30 June 2006
9/25/06 Ceres secures new 'product facility' for assembly of complete products
9/25/06 DESC trading at new 52-week lows
9/25/06 MCEL trading at new 52-week lows
9/25/06 Focus Will Be On UltraCell at Embedded Systems Conference in Boston UltraCell
9/25/06 Millennium Cell to Demonstrate New Hydrogen Fuel Option for Jadoo Power Fuel Cells "The new fuel solution will utilize Jadoo's N-Stor interface and be fully compatible with all Jadoo products including the recently announced XRT fuel cell system."
9/25/06 WSU researchers work on hydrogen energy "proposed solution is to load the automobile with nanosprings. When hydrogen is fueled into the vehicles, hydrogen atoms would stick to the outside of the nanosprings, thus storing the energy." Washington State University Daily Evergreen
9/25/06 Transducer Technologies Receives Funding from Chevron Technology Ventures for Hydrogen Quality Sensor Development
9/25/06 Solar Hydrogen Energy Corp (SHEC) Appoints Neil Mohammed of BMO Capital Markets to Its Board of Directors
9/25/06 A reality check on plug-in hybrids "Plug-ins do burn less gasoline than regular hybrids - and gobs less than gasoline-only vehicles - but the high cost of their bigger battery packs will probably neutralize even significant savings at the pump, according to a report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient America (ACEEE)." The Christian Science Monitor
9/25/06 Honda Demonstrates the FCX Concept Vehicle; Fully Functional Next-Generation Fuel Cell Makes its Driving Debut Japan Corporate News
9/25/06 Honda Unveils Next-Generation Power Plant Technologies Japan Corporate News
9/24/06 GM developing home hydrogen refueling device USA Today
9/24/06 Honda unveils diesel system to rival gasoline cars "its new diesel drivetrain features a unique method that generates and stores ammonia within a two-layer catalytic converter to turn nitrogen oxide into harmless nitrogen. . . [Honda] said it planned to roll out the advanced diesel engine in the United States within three years. . . Honda also showed off a prototype of its next-generation fuel cell vehicle which runs on a newly developed compact and more powerful fuel cell stack. . ." Reuters
9/24/06 AC Transit demonstrates hydrogen-powered buses Doubts remain about future of unwieldy fuel Tri-Valley Herald
9/23/06 Who's killing the fuel cell? "Lutz doesn't rule out hybrids, but says GM is more than impressed with the performance of lithium-ion batteries, which offer fast, high-power, "memory-free" recharging. "The real issue is petroleum," he says, "and the real objective is electric drive, whether it's powered with a fuel cell or a lithium-ion battery. Hell, we just want to get out from under the oil companies."" Telegraph
9/22/06 Bigger is not necessarily better -- in hydrogen storage University of Nottingham via physorg.com
9/22/06 DESC trades, closes at new 52-week lows $3.24 yahoo
9/22/06 FCEL trades at new 52-week low $7.76 yahoo
9/21/06 FCEL trades, closes at new 52-week lows $7.97, $7.97 bigcharts.com
9/22/06 QTWW trades, closes at new 52-week lows $2.05, $2.11 bigcharts.com
9/22/06 The end of the road for the car? "We will see a tipping point in about five years when environmental regulations put up the cost of producing an internal combustion engine to the point where its worth switching to hydrogen. [GM and BMW are] clearly close to being able to produce a car at a price which people are able to afford." CNN
9/22/06 Sparta Reports Successful Launch of Hy-Drive Hydrogen Generating System in New Zealand
9/22/06 Prequel to a Hydrogen Future: Driving G.M.’s Fuel Cell Prototype NY Times
9/22/06 PolyFuel: Notice of Interim Results "will be announcing its Interim Results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2006 on Monday 25 September 2006. There will be an analyst conference call at 8.00am on the day"
9/22/06 Fuel cell startup company wins politicians' praise Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg hype latest advances in clean energy in hopes of burnishing their own electoral hopes
9/21/06 Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited: FY 2006 Annual Report and Accounts "Annual General Meeting, to be held at 5.30 pm (Melbourne time) on Tuesday, 28 November 2006"
9/19/06 Protonex grants options to top executives
9/22/06 Power Air Corp Update to Shareholders collaboration agreement with Schrader Bridgeport International, completed two rounds of private equity financing, raising over $4 million in new capital
9/22/06 BMW's Hydrogen Hopes Hydrogen may never be feasible as a fuel for vehicles, but BMW is pushing ahead anyway with an advanced hydrogen-gas combustion hybrid. "The hydrogen/gasoline prototype is based on BMW's 7 series sedans, many of which retail for more than $100,000. (No price has been set on the new hybrid, since the car will not be sold.)" MIT Technology Review
9/21/06 HyPower Announces Results of the Hydro Power Pak "The HPP is a retrofit hydrogen insertion device developed for use on tractor trailer rigs as well as stationary diesel engines to improve fuel economy . . . Extensive testing of the HPP has shown that it will operate trouble-free for at least 500,000 miles, or 10,000 hours in stationary diesel generators."
9/21/06 Suzuki Develops Wheelchair Powered By Methanol Fuel Cell "powered by the direct methanol fuel cell, can travel more than 40km on 4 liters of fuel. Moreover, no time-consuming recharging of batteries is required. The company has not set a price for the wheelchair, but expects it to cost around 500,000 yen [US$4,300], which is some 150,000 yen more than today's motorized wheelchairs" Nikkei
9/21/06 Jefferies & Co. Maintains "Buy" Rating on Energy Conversion Devices "Analyst Jeffrey Bencik also maintained his $65 price target on the stock, saying the company's phase-change memory technology could be a replacement for widely used flash memory . . ." AP
9/21/06 General Motors Delivers Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicle to Army AP
9/21/06 Northern Power Appoints Ronald Puryear VP - Product Sales; Promotes Betsy Anderson to VP - Product Operations DESC
9/21/06 HYGS closes at new all-time low $1.31 yahoo
9/21/06 DESC sets new 52-week low closing price $3.38 yahoo
9/21/06 Topsoe Fuel Cell and Wärtsilä Corporation are selected for EUR 4.8 million grant from the EU LIFE Environment programme for a project which will develop and demonstrate manufacturing and operation of SOFC fuel cells
9/12/06 Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. to appear on Alexander Haig’s World Business Review TV Series September 24, 2006 on CNBC (as paid programming) (Sunday 3:00 PM ET, 12:00 PM PT)
9/21/06 Acta S.p.A: Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2006
9/21/06 Acta sees profit by 2010 on back of fuel cell product rollout - COO AFX
9/21/06 Ceramic Fuel Cells develops more powerful fuel cells "These new cells are more than twice as powerful as CFCL's current cells, and match or exceed other solid oxide fuel cell figures in terms of power density . . . electric efficiency of 50% and significantly better fuel utilisation of up to 85%"
9/21/06 MTI Micro's Mobion® Exceeds Li-Ion Battery Consumer Prototype Provides Over a Month of Typical Cellular Phone Usage "the size of a small paperback novel . . . prototype provides over 95Wh of continuous run-time . . . charge an average cell phone battery over 30 times or give customers about a month of phone usage on one full charge per day" no mention of weight (other than "light"), cost or price PHOTO
9/21/06 QuestAir Named One of Canada's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program
9/21/06 SatCon Announces 10 Megawatts in Orders for Photovoltaic Inverters from a Series of New and Existing Customers Renewable Energy Subsidiary's Backlog Exceeds $16 Million
9/21/06 SatCon Announces Change in its Fiscal Year End to December 31
9/20/06 California Sues GM, Ford, Toyota Over Global Warming Bloomberg
9/20/06 HYGS closes at new all-time low $1.39 yahoo
9/20/06 MCEL closes at new 52-week low $1.14 yahoo
9/20/06 Opinion: Our Hangup with Hydrogen "What our President, and much of the general public, fail to realize is that hydrogen cars are currently an unrealistic dream that will neither reduce our dependence on foreign oil nor improve the environment. . . So long as promises of magical hydrogen-derived energy obscure the real challenge—finding an energy source, not just a storage system—then politicians and the public will continue to delude themselves . . ." The Harvard Crimson
9/20/06 Forget gas! Fill your tanks with water, Weizmann researcher says "use the element boron, a lightweight semi-metallic element, to react with water to produce hydrogen" Jerusalem Post
9/20/06 Ceramic Microreactors For Use In Fuel Cells and Other Portable Power Sources University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9/20/06 Cami rides fuel-cell wave "Cami Automotive, which makes the Equinox sport utility vehicle, is building 100 fuel-cell vehicles that will be shipped and tested in three major U.S. markets. . . Cami, a joint-venture plant run by GM and Suzuki, makes the Equinox, Pontiac Torrent and Suzuki XL7 sport utility vehicles." cnews
9/20/06 Millennium Cell Awarded U.S. Navy Phase I SBIR Contract ". . . by the U.S. Navy. Under this six month program, the Company will develop a novel, safe, high energy density hydrogen storage system for use in small, portable fuel cell based power sources suitable for a variety of military applications"
9/20/06 SatCon Streamlines Operations to Focus Investment Spending on Rapidly Growing Renewable Energy Business Record Backlog Exceeds $33 Million
9/20/06 GM advances toward marketable fuel cell vehicles GM claims the Equinox FCV to be the most capable vehicle of its kind yet produced by an automaker. The four-seat crossover has a 200-mile range and is useable in sub-zero temperatures. Detroit News
9/20/06 Car emissions to end? Don't hold your breath "Internal combustion engines have established such a stranglehold on the automotive industry that they will probably outlast everyone alive today. . ." Reuters India
9/20/06 End of the year, India’s first hydrogen-dispensing gas station will open in Delhi Indian Express
9/19/06 Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Canada formed to accelerate development of high temperature fuel cells
9/19/06 Marine Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association Founded Leipzig Germany
9/19/06 'Blimp' Your Ride With Hydrogen "This summer, as 100 of the world's finest, fastest and most fuel-hungry cars in the world congregated in Times Square for the Bullrun Rally, another unique vehicle made its debut. . ." Wired
9/19/06 HyPower Fuel Inc. Provides Management Discussion Other OTC:HYPF.PK "The Company's proprietary product, the Hydro Power Pak (HPP), uses electrolysis to generate hydrogen for insertion to improve the performance of the internal combustion engine"
9/19/06 QuantumSphere Accelerates Hydrogen Economy - Files Key Patent on Catalyst Device for Low-Cost, High Efficiency Hydrogen Production - Breakthrough in Hydrogen Generation on Demand
9/19/06 MTI Micro Expands Agreement on Distribution of Fuel Cartridges see related 8-K
9/19/06 HYGS closes at new all-time low $1.53 yahoo
9/19/06 MKTY closes at new 3-year low $1.77 yahoo
9/19/06 MCEL closes at new 52-week low $1.15 yahoo
9/19/06 DESC trades at new 52-week low $3.55 yahoo
9/19/06 Sharp’s Kameyama Plant—The World’s Most Advanced Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing Facility The World’s Largest Photovoltaic Power System and One of Japan’s Largest Fuel-Cell and Cogeneration Systems Installed
9/19/06 MCEL trading at new 52-week low yahoo
9/19/06 Iowa Company Turns to Ammonia to Solve the Hydrogen Storage Problem Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc.
9/18/06 Driving GM's New Hydrogen Car The radical thing about Chevy's hydrogen concept car is how normal it feels to drive IEEE Spectrum
9/16/06 State Finds [Connecticut Clean] Energy Fund Bent Rules "findings complicated efforts to get the fund's Project 100 started after three years of planning. The contracts for the two winning proposals - from GDI Renewable Power-Watertown and PPL WallingfordFuel Cell - were supposed to mark the beginning of the project, the goal of which is to put into place 100 megawatts of renewable energy power generation. . . The Department of Public Utility Control will decide on the contracts for the two projects later this month." Hartford Courant ["PPL Wallingford Fuel Cell" is probably the the FCEL based proposal. H2FC Ed.]
9/18/06 Engineers' magnesium solution to hydrogen storage debacle "Every kilogram of Hydrexia’s magnesium can store about 75g of hydrogen, which according to Ng, is about seven times the storage density of a standard pressure cylinder." ferret.com.au
9/18/06 Optimising plastic membranes for fuel cells New screening project to identify potential polymers Plastics & Rubber Weekly, UK
9/18/06 Millennium Cell and Gecko Energy Technologies to Demonstrate Fuel Cell Powered Wireless Camera at Homeland Defense Conference
9/18/06 Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. and Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. Announce the Successful Operation of Syn-Fuel Powered Electric Generator for the China Market
9/18/06 Search for a better battery keeps going and going Lithium-ion batteries may eventually give way to tiny fuel cells Christian Science Monitor
9/17/06 GM to build fuel-cell vehicles in Oshawa 100 hydrogen Equinox SUVs to be in hands of customers in three high-profile U.S. markets starting in 2007 Toronro Star
9/17/06 GM Canada Partnership Key as Chevrolet Prepares to Launch the World's Largest Fuel Cell Vehicle Fleet General Motors of Canada Limited
9/17/06 GM's hydrogen fuel-cell fleet to arrive next year; mass production possible by 2011 Detroit Free Press
9/17/06 Driving a Chevy Sequel isn't exciting, but that's the idea Detroit Free Press
9/17/06 Editorial: Hydrogen can fuel cars, economy Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
9/17/06 Blog: Hydrogen Blowin' in the Wind "Now [GM] is in the uncomfortable position of advocating against using products from their cozy oil friends and instead embracing alternative energy. How the company transitions to alt energy backer will likely determine its future." Wired
9/2006 2007 BMW Hydrogen 7 Car and Driver
9/16/06 Renewable Synthetic Fuel (RSFuel) has Acquired Advanced Algae Technologies for the Production of Hydrogen
9/15/06 Honda announces breakthrough on bio-ethanol production "the basic technology has been developed that can produce the fuel from inedible leaves and stalks of plants such as rice" Business Respect
9/15/06 DESC ends week at new 52-week low $3.84 yahoo
9/15/06 MKTY ends week at new 52-week low $1.97 yahoo
9/14/06 GM vice chairman wants mass produced hydrogen cars by 2011 "Up to $9 billion has been freed up as a result of GM's recent restructuring, Lutz said. The company now has more money to invest in hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars, which will form an important part of the auto giant's long-term economic recovery plan." AP
9/13/06 ECD looking for $100 million hydrogen investment "Stempel . . . said the company has started that financing effort in earnest and the money would go toward research into reducing the weight of storage containers." Reuters
9/14/06 Energy Conversion Devices to Present at Merriman Curhan Ford Investor Summit 2006 on September 18
9/14/06 Hydrogen research takes flight at Tech "[The plane is] definitely underpowered. But this aircraft shows what will be possible when lighter, more powerful fuel cells become available. And some of them are commercially available now." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9/14/06 A hydrogen high Clean-energy bus unveiled "progress isn't cheap. . . costs will keep the bus off most city fleet for years. . . the one-of-a-kind model price around $1 million to $2 million, a range that should lower when it hits mass production. An average diesel bus sells for about $400,000 . . . hydrogen fuel costs around $50 per kilo. A 45-kilo full tank is enough to drive more than 400 km, or an eight-hour bus run." Winnipeg Sun
9/14/06 SunLine Purchases Eco-Friendly Buses "15 new passenger buses, including a low-emission hydrogen hybrid bus and a zero-emission fuel cell bus" KCAL
9/14/06 Russia To Lead In Hydrogen Economy Russia-InfoCenter
9/14/06 Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition Welcomes New Board Members and Chairman
9/14/06 Bruce Power First Nuclear Generator to Join Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Canada
9/14/06 BMW's Hydrogen Boondoggle "Notice that you didn't see the words "fuel cell" anywhere in BMW's announcement. . . BMW's offering is a sort of half-measure -- more a PR stunt, really, than an effort to prove that hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles have come of age. . ." Motley Fool
9/13/06 Power Air Appoints Back-Up Power Product Manager
9/14/06 SatCon Expands Product Line with Introduction of High Reliability Power Management Products
9/14/06 Juicy Stock Picks Medis [enter "medis" in the search box on the lower left, click the "go" button, then click "Juicy Stock Picks" on the right] BusinessWeek
9/14/06 Frost & Sullivan Recognizes INI Power Systems for Its Innovative and Highly Efficient Direct Methanol Fuel Cells Technology
9/11/06 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration Project Announced for Lambton County, Ontario
9/14/06 Despite PC Drama, New Battery Tech Still Years Away MTI, UltraLife, Valence, Altair Reuters
9/14/06 Ener1 Inc. Reports Significant Strides in Commercializing Its Li-Ion Batteries for Hybrid Vehicles and Fuel Cells
9/14/06 Ener1 Chairman's Letter to Shareholders
9/14/06 Auto majors team up for Hydrogen-run ride "Five automobile majors -- Bajaj Auto, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, Mahindra and Eicher Motors -- have come together to develop hydrogen-blended compressed natural gas-run vehicles." rediff news, New Delhi
9/14/06 Drop-Top Fuel Cell: Peugeot Epure Concept Preps for Paris Debut Edmunds
9/13/06 Sumitomo Corporation and Acta extend relationship
9/13/06 Jadoo XRT Fuel Cell for Emergency Responders Photo gizmag
9/13/06 Motorola Has High Hopes for Mobile WiMax: Paper "The paper said Warrior saw mobile phone power consumption as the hottest question for the industry at the moment. Results for developing new fuel cells to ensure better battery life have been poor, she said, adding: "It will be just as important to develop components, software and applications that consume less power."" Reuters
9/13/06 GM Looks to Celebrities As It Readies a Major Fuel-Cell Announcement "General Motors is set to make a major announcement about how it will promote its fuel-cell vehicles next year, with what will likely be a major emphasis on celebrities and Southern California. At the same time, the automaker has decided to make Chevrolet — its most mainstream marque — its "fuel-cell brand."" Edmunds
9/13/06 Bus of the future debuts in Winnipeg "Hydrogenics developed the bus with financial support from Natural Resources Canada in collaboration with Winnipeg's New Flyer Industries, Dynetek Industries of Calgary, and ISE Research and Maxwell Technologies" Winnipeg Sun
9/13/06 Energy Conversion Devices shares up on narrower loss "rose over 12 percent on Wednesday" Reuters
9/13/06 Emission Credit Donation by FuelCell Energy Kicks off 'Cleaner and Greener' World Energy Engineering Congress
9/13/06 Better Fuel Cells for Laptops Adding a chemical found in antifreeze to fuel cells could provide a longer-lasting alternative to batteries in portable electronics. Medis, Millennium Cell MIT Technology Review
9/13/06 Honda hydrogen car coasts to future 2006 FCX may not be fast or pretty, but it scores in fuel efficiency Detroit News
9/13/06 Ultimate (hybrid) driving machine Combining luxury with high technology, BMW is preparing to roll out the Ultimate Hybrid Machine -- a 7 Series sedan capable of running on either gasoline or hydrogen Detroit News
9/12/06 BMW to lease hydrogen cars in April Sedan will have two tanks, one for gasoline as well; GM shows off Sequel MSNBC
9/12/06 BMW's H-Bomb BMW will introduce limited production of hydrogen cars in 2007, but don't expect to find one at your local showroom any time soon BusinessWeek
9/12/06 'Green' technology gets attention of big power users Interest in energy alternatives for data centers is growing "One company that introduced fuel cells last year for data center use is American Power Conversion Corp. (APC), but the technology is intended for niche uses at this point. . . APC's fuel cell technology, which can support up to 30 kilowatts of electricity -- about the amount some large blade servers use -- gets about 10 minutes from each tank of hydrogen, which are typically the size of a welder's tank. . . With fuel cell use still somewhere down the road, other technologies are getting attention. Less exotic are flywheel technologies . . ." Computerworld
9/12/06 The hydrogen powered fork lift Ballard, Cellex Power, General Hydrogen CNET
9/12/06 Putting the fuel in fuel cells Ammonia borane holds promise as a chemical compound to store and release hydrogen in fuel cell-powered vehicles – and it appears stable enough to offset some safety concerns Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
9/11/06 Europe to test seagoing fuel cell plant "Led by DNV, the FellowSHIP initiative includes Eidesvik Offshore, MTU CFC Solutions of Germany, Wärtsilä Automation Norway and Norwegian ship design consultancy Vik-Sandvik." [FCEL probably involved] Informa Martime Trade and Transport
9/12/06 Tiny fuel cell might replace batteries in laptop computers, portable electronics "borohydride has shown promise as a safe, energy-dense hydrogen storage solution" American Chemical Society
9/12/06 Using microbes to fuel the US hydrogen economy DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
9/12/06 Energy Conversion Devices Reports Fiscal Year and Fourth Quarter 2006 Operating Results "Operating profit at United Solar Ovonic segment increased to $8.6 million in fiscal 2006 compared to an operating loss of $3.2 million in fiscal 2005, on a 49% increase in revenues . . ."
9/12/06 Energy Conversion quarterly loss narrows; revenue gains MarketWatch
9/12/06 Fool On Call: Earth-Friendly Investing FCEL Motley Fool
9/12/06 NRC Opens Cutting Edge Fuel Cell Research Facility
9/12/06 Lt. Governor Applauds Development Announcement "[Lt.] Governor Bruce Johnson today joined with company officials from NexTech Materials . . . and Plug Power . . . to announce that the two companies will be designing, manufacturing and testing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) in Ohio. The project won nearly $1 million in competitive funding through Ohio’s Third Frontier Fuel Cell Initiative." Ohio Lt. Governor Bruce Johnson
9/12/06 Hydrogenics to Present at ThinkEquity Conference in San Francisco, September 13, 2006
9/12/06 Plug to collaborate on market research, R&D on solid oxide fuel cells "The initial target market is the military, specifically the U.S. Air Force and Army. 'Plug Power is open to exploring other fuel cell technology platforms that may open new opportunities within our targeted customer applications,' said Roger Saillant, Plug Power's chief executive officer." bizjournals.com
9/12/06 Fuel-Cell Hard Sell Ballard The Street.com
9/12/06 Pollywog Transport to Equip Fleet With Hy-Drive Technologies Clean Burn Technology
9/12/06 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces Date of its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Financial Results Conference Call Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 5:00 p.m. EDT
9/12/06 Jadoo Power Introduces XRT 100 Watt Fuel Cell System for Emergency Responders Delivers 2200 Watt-hours (180 Amp-hours)
9/12/06 XEBRA Electric Car From ZAP Now Available on eBay Through Voltage Vehicles Dealership "designed to fill a very specific need in the US for 100 percent electric city-speed vehicles priced under $10,000" ZAP
9/12/06 EnBW, Siemens join forces to build fuel-cell power plant "a megawatt-class demonstration plant, with the groundwork to be completed by 2008 and the plant to be built by 2012" AFP
9/12/06 BMW to Roll Out First Hydrogen-Burning Car Next Year Reuters
9/12/06 Ener1 Installs First Phase Production Line "for lithium ion (Li-Ion) battery electrodes"
9/12/06 Aussies take over big wind project "Sydney-based unlisted public company Wind Hydrogen announced yesterday it would buy [the proposed 116 turbine, 232 megawatt plant approved for Mt Gellibrand near Colac in western Victoria] for an undisclosed sum from German development group Pro Ventum International." The Australian
9/12/06 Peugeot to Sell Fuel Cell Car? Coming to the upcoming Paris Motor Show, the Peugeot 207 EPURE fuel cell concept car will be tipped as future model BusinessWeek
9/11/06 Hydrogen to make Lolland environmental model A producer of fuel cells plans to make an outlying district into a model hydrogen city The Copenhagen Post
9/11/06 PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy ETF: Leverage Through Volatility SeekingAlpha
9/11/06 FUELCELL ENERGY INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
9/11/06 7 Stocks You Need To Know For Tuesday "Quantum Fuel Systems (NASDAQ:QTWW) beat earnings this afternoon, announcing $0.23 EPS vs expected $0.18." TradingMarkets.com
9/11/06 Quantum Fuel quarterly loss widens; revenue falls MarketWatch
9/11/06 Quantum Technologies Reports Fiscal 2007 First Quarter Financial Results
9/11/06 Students explore the potential of fuel cells Reliable Planet
9/11/06 Hy9 Corporation’s Hydrogen Purifier Products Allow For 10-Times Less Palladium When Compared to Conventional Tubular Purifiers
9/11/06 MKTY trading at 52-week low yahoo
9/11/06 New World Trade Center Complex Will Use On-Site Distributed Generation "site will be partially powered from a suite of on-site fuel cell power plants totaling 4.8 MW" supplier of fuel cells not named newrules.org See also Sept. 7 press release from NY Governor Pataki's office
9/10/06 SYMPOSIUM - Fuel cells for mining April 29, 2007 Canadian Mining Journal
9/11/06 Hydrogen Power International Neutral Rating Maintained in Updated Coverage by Dutton Associates "The cost of enrollment in our one-year continuing research program is US $35,000 prepaid for 4 Research Reports, typically published quarterly, and requisite Research Notes. We received $35,000 from the Company for 4 Research Reports with coverage commencing on 5/25/2006." Hydrogen Power International
9/11/06 NTT DoCoMo to invest in fuel-cell developer Japanese cellular telephone company will acquire 36.5 percent of Aquafairy IDG
9/11/06 A Whole Different Kind of Fuelie: GM's Sequel to Be a Chevrolet jalopnik
9/10/06 Chemical screening system helps evaluate PEM fuel cell materials "In contrast to traditional membrane development – a synthesis-intensive process that requires many distinct steps – the partners are taking a "formulation approach." This involves selecting a number of different polymers, with each one picked for a specific property, and then combining the polymers in one mixing step so the final material retains all of the desired properties." Georgia Tech
9/10/06 Latest fuel cell material advance overcomes low humidity conductivity problem "Instead of stirring two kinds of reactive monomers, or small molecules, together to form a new random copolymer, the new material links blocks of two different short polymers in sequences. For example, he would link polymer W (loves water) and polymer d (dry but strong) into a chain this way: WWWWWdddddddWWWWWdddddddd." Virginia Tech
9/9/06 S.C. must take lead in developing hydrogen technology The State
9/8/06 The door to the hydrogen economy may be made of cobalt "researchers have found a class of non-precious metal composites that can replace the platinum on the cathode side of a PEFC . . . a composite consisting of cobalt (Co, a non-precious metal) covalently trapped in-between polypyrolle (PPY, [C4NH3]n) backbones on an amorphous carbon support" Ars Technica
9/8/06 Still No Go at FuelCell Motley Fool
9/8/06 ECD Ovonics Announces Next Phase of Its Solar Module Manufacturing Expansion Strategy ECD Ovonics continues on the growth path with the second 60MW Greenville solar cell manufacturing
9/8/06 Eaton and Altergy Work to Provide Fuel Cell Power Solutions to Telecommunications and Other Industries, Worldwide
9/7/06 Isakson, Chambliss Announce $1.6 Million for Fuel-Cell Technology Development
9/7/06 Juiced About Medis Technologies BusinessWeek
9/7/06 Hy-Drive Technologies Announces Elevation to Tier 1 Status from the Tier 2 on the TSX Venture Exchange
9/7/06 General Hydrogen Sells Leading Forklift OEM Nissan a Hydricity® Pack for Japan Show
9/7/06 Medis "24/7 Power Pack" vs. Energizer "Energi To Go" h2fc.com
9/7/06 FuelCell Energy Shares Fall, Company Reports Wider Fiscal 3rd-Quarter Loss AP
9/7/06 Kettering fuel cell hopes dashed "Kettering University's dream to partner with Delphi Corp. to commercially produce fuel cells appears to be up in the air after the school failed to get an $8-million state grant." The Flint Journal
9/7/06 Quantum's Hydrogen Vehicles Featured at Statoil Opening of Norway's First Hydrogen Station
9/7/06 Hy-Drive Technologies Ltd Information To Be Available Through S&P Market Access Program
9/7/06 Ceres secures regional support to help drive manufacturing scale-up
9/7/06 Leading Fuel Cell Expert Joins Acta "Dr Ren has been working on fuel cells for over twelve years. He worked for six years at Los Alamos . . . and was subsequently research director at MTI Micro Fuel Cells"
9/7/06 Shuttle liftoff is postponed "engineers discovered that a coolant pump that chills one of the shuttle's three electricity-generating fuel cells was giving an erratic reading" AP
9/6/06 FuelCell Energy Reports Third Quarter 2006 Results and Accomplishments "Net loss to common shareholders for the third quarter of fiscal 2006 was $19.8 million"
9/6/06 Ballard Introduces Next Generation Air-Cooled Fuel Cell Stack "uses 33% fewer parts than the previous generation air-cooled product, incorporates new, lower cost materials, and reduces precious metal catalyst content significantly"
9/6/06 Foolish Forecast: FuelCell Energy Motley Fool
9/6/06 Islands plan for more green power The latest stage of a new £2.5m eco-friendly hydrogen energy project in the Western Isles has been unveiled. BBC
9/6/06 Power Air Targets Asian Market Through Joint Venture with H-Plus Group
9/6/06 Taking a DaimlerChrysler Fuel Cell Vehicle to the Drag Strip Chrysler Group
9/6/06 Hybrid Technologies, Inc. 'OTCBB:HYBT' Selects Ballard Power Systems [312V 67 MS electric drive system] for NASA 'NASA.GOV' and New York City Taxi 'NYC.TLC.GOV' Lithium PT Cruisers
9/6/06 Medis Technologies Announces Start of Underwriter Laboratory Listing Process for Its Fuel Cell 24/7 Power Packs
9/5/06 Middle-sized holes best for storing hydrogen Painstaking study paves the way for gas-holding materials "so-called metal organic frameworks (MOFs) — molecular scaffolding filled with tiny cylindrical pores that hydrogen gas can be forced into" Nature
9/5/06 Nissan Aiming To Cut Fuel Cell Vehicles' Cost By '15 "to around 1.2 times that of regular mass-produced vehicles . . . Nissan will focus on making the stack and hydrogen tanks more compact and lighter. Fuel cell vehicles weigh around 400kg more than standard cars, a differential the automaker aims to shrink to 200kg by 2015. . ." Nikkei
9/5/06 Hydrogenics Announces Leadership Changes "current President and Chief Executive Officer, Pierre Rivard, will become Executive Chair upon the successful completion of a search for a successor to Mr. Rivard as CEO . . . Moving into the full-time Executive Chair position, once the new CEO is hired, will enable Pierre Rivard to concentrate on the long term strategy of the company and on future developments in the alternative energy industry. . . A conference call will be held to discuss this announcement on September 6, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. (EDT)."
9/5/06 SatCon Wins Navy Contract for a Modular High Density Isolated DC/DC Converter for Fuel Cell Power
8/29/06 Gilford Securities Reiterates "Buy" on Medis Technologies
9/5/06 Angstrom Power Closes $18 Million Round of Financing Expansion of Capital Positions Angstrom for Commercialization of Micro Fuel Cells
9/5/06 IdaTech's ElectraGen™ Family of Critical Backup Power Systems Achieves NEBS Level 3 Certification Certification Enables Sale of Company's Integrated Fuel Cell Systems to Major U.S. Telecommunications Carriers
9/5/06 Voller Energy Group PLC: Unaudited Preliminary Results for the year ended 30 June 2006
9/5/06 Langford Inc. to Equip Entire Fleet With Hy-Drive Technologies' Clean Burn Technology
9/4/06 Oxford Catalysts Group PLC awarded £118,000 from the Carbon Trust
9/4/06 Topsoe Fuel Cell and Wärtsilä Corporation demonstrate operating results in line with SECA phase 1 requirements with a 4 kWe Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) unit
9/4/06 Ceres Power Holdings plc will announce preliminary results for the year ended 30
June 2006 on Monday 25 September 2006
9/4/06 Acta S.p.A will to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2006 on Thursday 21 September 2006 "developer and producer of platinum free catalysts for the fuel cell industry"
9/1/06 Are Lithium Ion batteries safe for cars? "There really weren’t very many fires, before Sony decided to recall nearly 5 million laptop batteries, but insurance standards gave Sony no choice. The speed with which the story has evaporated before anyone could ask about why it happened, why it won’t happen again, and what will be done with the returned batteries is a testament to the deflection skills of the public relations departments of the affected companies." carlist.com
9/1/06 Reflections on Investing in the Future of Lithium
9/1/06 Physicist acclaimed for new hydrogen technology "R&D Magazine has dubbed the ultra-fast hydrogen sensor developed by Xiao's research team at Argonne National Laboratory one of the world's top 100 scientific and technological innovations of 2005. The sensor – which can be made smaller than a grain of sand – will alert occupants of hydrogen-powered vehicles to potentially explosive hydrogen leaks." Naperville Sun
9/1/06 Ceres appoints Finance Director
9/1/06 No Hydrogen Economy Needed: Existing Tech Could Replace Fossil Fuels A new road map to decarbonization says we already have all the technology we need, we just need to spend more money to implement it. "[Researchers at City College of New York] say the use of hydrogen for fuel is a bad idea in most cases--that using electricity directly in vehicles (stored in batteries) rather than to generate hydrogen is three times cheaper" MIT Technology Review (Blog)
9/1/06 Op-Ed: Safety Last Each new advance in energy storage seems to offer us a Faustian choice, and we always take the devil’ s side: knowledge (talk- or surfing-time) over safety. "We could use fuel cells, but that could require storing compressed and highly explosive hydrogen in your notebook computer. Direct methanol fuel cells could run your mobile phone on vodka but they’d likely leak in your pocket." By Robert X. Cringely, host of PBS’s NerdTV. NY Times
9/11/06 The Truth About Fiery Laptops Lithium ion batteries are potential incendiaries, but they're all we've got "[S]o far, nobody has been able to develop [methanol fuel] cells that can meet the power needs of laptops, fit in the space now occupied by a battery, and be cheap enough to be competitive. Even if such cells existed, we would need a distribution system to make cartridges of the liquid fuel available everywhere. And while the International Civil Aviation Organization has approved their use aboard commercial aircraft, the methanol cartridges are unlikely to pass muster with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration." Business Week
8/31/06 NTT DoCoMo Speaks on Requirements of Fuel Cell for Mobile Devices "DoCoMo talked about the following four requirements of the fuel cell for use in mobile phones: (1) power at generation point; (2) orientation-free property; (3) improvements in safety and maintenance; and (4) other issues." Nikkei Electronics PHOTO
9/1/06 American Stock Exchange to Trade Options on HOKU
8/25/06 Live Green, Go Nuclear "GM says bulking up the nuclear-reactor fleet is one answer to creating the vast amounts of electricity a hydrolysis-based hydrogen economy will require to be genuinely environmentally sustainable." WardsAuto.com
9/1/06 City To Test Fuel Cell Bus UTC Power Sees Overseas Sales Potential The Hartford Courant
9/1/06 Form 8-K for SATCON TECHNOLOGY CORP: Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule
9/1/06 Hartford to test fuel cell buses UTC Fuel Cells WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio
9/1/06 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces Date of its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Financial Results Conference Call Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 5:00 p.m. EDT
9/1/06 Intelligent Energy announces the appointment of Henri Winand as new company Chief Executive

August 2006

8/31/06 Hoku to build plant in Idaho, not Singapore The Kapolei-based company was lured by tax breaks and other financial support Honolulu Star Bulletin
8/31/06 UTC Power Leads Industry Team Building New England's First Fuel Cell Bus
8/31/06 A Backup Battery for All Your Stuff, and Available in Midflight Xantrex Li-Ion, 1 lb., 120V output through standard AC socket, 2 hours run time on a laptop, $130 NY Times
8/31/06 VIASPACE Subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation Adds Engineering Manager in Korea
8/30/06 The Latest Fuel Cell News In Japan, August 2006
8/30/06 Hoku Scientific Announces Selection of Idaho for Solar Module and Polysilicon Production Facilities
8/30/06 InPlay: Energy Conversion rallies 0.80 over 20 min amid pick up in volume, hovering near 50 ema at 34.14 --session high 34.21
8/30/06 U.S. Department of Energy Funding More Research at Northern Power on Modular Technology for Large Wind Turbines
8/30/06 FuelCell Energy Boosts Electric Power Output of DFC Power Plants 20 Percent in Same Footprint Increased Power Density Reduces Cost of Ultra-Clean Product, Company Taking Orders on New Units for Spring 2007 Delivery
8/30/06 MTI to Speak at Two Upcoming Financial Conferences
8/29/06 Lincoln Composites to make new large CNG Tanks "ould have a future market transporting hydrogen for fuel-cell powered vehicles" E-Composites
8/29/06 Fuel Cell is 'BEGINI': Antig and Partners AVC, Nan Ya PCB, Syspotek to Showcase Portable Fuel Cell at IFA 2006 Antig
8/28/06 New DOE Employment Opportunity Available in Hydrogen Production "lead chemical engineer to serve as the hydrogen production team leader within the Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and Infrastructure Technologies Program in Washington, D.C." US DoE
8/29/06 Brean Murray: Medis Technologies Update - Favorable Developments on UL Approval and Other Matters; Reiterate Strong Buy ($35 Target)
8/29/06 CERDEC Awards IdaTech With New $3M Contract for the Development of a Three Kilowatt Tactical Fuel Cell Generator
8/29/06 Hy-Drive Technologies announces fiscal 2006 second quarter
8/29/06 Nobuyuki Denda, Former CEO of Intel Japan, Joins VIASPACE Board of Directors
8/29/06 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for Thu, Sep 7
8/29/06 Astris Energi Fuel Cell Electrodes Pass 5,000 Hour Test
8/29/06 Cobasys Installs Back-up Power System at Automation Alley
8/29/06 Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited: preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2006
8/28/06 Japan Govt. Plans Greener Cars to Wean Itself Off Oil "Japan, which has a target of 50,000 fuel-cell vehicles on Japanese roads in 2010, aims to raise the number of such vehicles in use to 5 million by 2020." Reuters
8/28/06 Robot takes flight with hydrogen fuel cell "A group at Georgia Tech has devised a unmanned aerial vehicle that flies on a hydrogen fuel cell. . ." CNET
8/28/06 Hydrogen power system unveiled in Maine "at the Chewonki Foundation's environmental education center" AP
8/28/06 Hy-Drive Technologies and Mining Technologies International Inc. Sign Landmark Marketing, Distribution and Manufacturing Agreement Hydrogen Generating System to be Adapted by Leading Mining Equipment Company for use in Underground and Above Ground Mining Equipment to Reduce Harmful Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Consumption
8/28/06 Neighborhood fuel cells promise clean, quiet, reliable energy -- and security The Mercury News
8/28/06 Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. and Aditya Birla Group's Grasim Industries Ltd. Sign Joint Technology and Marketing Memorandum of Understanding
8/27/06 H2FC Table of Short Positions as of 8/15/06
8/27/06 Boeing hydrogen plane set to lift off The Sunday Times
8/26/06 Experimenting with Hydrogen Transportation "Brazil has joined the industrialised countries in the race for hydrogen power, announcing the development of public buses running on this source of "clean" energy. But experts say the new vehicles will only be commercially viable at the end of the next decade, or even later. . ." Tierramérica
8/26/06 Money flowing to new ideas in energy "Start-ups working with solar, battery, hydrogen, wind, and fuel cell technologies raised $445.1 million in venture funds nationally in the first six months of this year, 56.1 percent more than the $285.2 million raised by such companies in all of 2005" A123 Systems, Lilliputian Systems Boston Globe
8/25/06 Short positions in NASDAQ H2FC stocks as of 8/15/06 nasdaq.com
8/25/06 Hoku Scientific shares up again "spike came after Hoku announced late Thursday that it would proceed with plans to enter the solar market by building a polysilicon plant . . . Despite the strong performance, many day traders expressed concern on the company's Yahoo! Finance message board that Hoku's stock will fall next week because Dustin Shindo, CEO and founder of Hoku, had to give 1.5 million shares of his stock to his ex-wife on Aug. 15 as part of a divorce settlement." bizjournals.com
8/25/06 Brean Murray maintains "strong buy" rating on MDTL "[A]s if in a parallel “bizarro” universe, Medis skeptics have recently stepped up their bearishness just as developments are breaking through to the positive, in our view. There are significant errors of fact and judgment, according to our analysis, in the latest round of critiques of Medis. . ."
8/25/06 Medis Technologies "strong buy," estimates raised "Analyst Gary M Giblen of Brean Murray maintains his "strong buy" rating on [MDTL], while raising his estimates for the company. The target price is set to $35." newratings.com
8/25/06 IL Insider: Honda To Unveil Third-Generation Fuel Cell in LA Edmunds
8/25/06 QuestAir to Supply Hydrogen Purifier to Hydro-Chem for Eastern European Hydrogen Plant
8/25/06 QuestAir H-3200 Hydrogen Purifier Installed at SunLine Transit Hydrogen Station
8/25/06 HOKU Scientific upgraded by Piper Jaffray from "Market Perform" to "Outperform"
8/24/06 BP needs UK nod for clean power project "BP may not go ahead with a $1 billion clean energy project in Scotland if it fails to get the government incentives it needs by the end of the year . . . The project . . . would split natural gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO2). The hydrogen would be used to feed a power plant, while the CO2 would be pumped offshore and injected into the North Sea Miller field." Reuters
8/24/06 Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE "The RX-8's rotary engine can run on either petrol or hydrogen, which is stored in liquid form in a second fuel tank. . . A rotary engine is far better suited to burning hydrogen than a conventional piston engine – which goes some way to explaining Mazda's persistence with the rotary engine when all other manufacturers left it behind. . . Mazda is leasing the RX-8 RE in Japan for around £1900 a month. But it will be a good while before you can wander into a showroom filled with hydrogen-burning Mazdas. . ." PHOTOS CAR Online
8/24/06 About Batteries: Tips on Longevity and Reviving the Dead "Dell’s recall of batteries for more than four million laptop computers has brought renewed attention to the temperamental nature of a crucial power source. . . To avoid lugging around a suitcase full of chargers, several manufacturers make all-in-one devices: charging bricks that come with a selection of tips to fit different tools. . ." SideWinder, Soldius1 Universal Solar Charger, APC Mobile Power Pack, iGo Juice. No mention of fuel cells or Energizer's "Energi To Go". New York Times
8/24/06 Hoku Scientific Awards Contract for Polysilicon Plant "has awarded a contract to CH2M HILL Lockwood Greene to provide engineering and related services for Hoku Materials' planned polysilicon production plant. The total value of the contract was not disclosed."
8/24/06 Dutton Associates Announces Investment Opinion: HydroGen Speculative Buy Rating in Initiating Coverage by Dutton Associates
8/24/06 Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries Power devices said to cause overheating risk; Apple sees 'no material impact' on finances; battery maker Sony says recent recalls will cost as much as $258 million. CNNMoney
8/24/06 MDTL short position for August up another 6.74% HYGS short position up 6.26% nasdaqtrader.com [Link is to a form with which other short positions can be checked.]
8/24/06 Shell Announces $1 Million Research Project to Ohio State University for Clean Hydrogen Technology Research
8/24/06 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. reports 2006 second quarter results 8/23/06 Increased Solar Silicon Production Chases Demand note implications for Hoku EERE News
8/23/06 Hydrogen Power International "neutral" "reported loss per share and pro forma revenues at $0.34 and $58,000, respectively, for 2Q, which is its first complete quarter after it became a public entity" newratings.com
8/23/06 Norway opens hydrogen refueling station USA Today
8/22/06 When the oil runs out Guinness Atkinson energy manager seeks value in wind, fuel cells, ethanol ". . . Another favorite stock is Medis" MarketWatch via NY Daily News
8/23/06 World Premiere: EFOY Fuel Cells feature TUEV SUED Octagon Quality Seal Smart Fuel Cell
8/23/06 Protonex to Introduce ProCore™ UAV Fuel Cell Power System at World's Largest Unmanned Systems Symposium
8/23/06 VIASPACE Subsidiary Ionfinity Obtains Army Contract for System to Detect Chemical Agents & IEDs
8/23/06 Antig Wins Red Herring Asia Top 100 Award; Innovative Fuel Cell Solution to Drive Forward the IT Industry "In later half of 2006,Antig will showcase further fuel cell solutions and application reference designs at "IFA 2006" in Berlin, and "Intel Developer Forum 2006" in San Francisco."
8/22/06 ANALYSIS: High Costs Holding Back Sales Of Home Fuel Cells "With installed residential fuel cells projected to reach only 1,200 units at fiscal year-end, lowering the roughly 5 million yen [US$43,066] production cost will hold the key to spurring their use. . . To defray the cost of fuel cells, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry this fiscal year will provide subsidies of 4.5 million yen per unit to such suppliers as Nippon Oil. The fuel cell providers, in turn, aim to offset the gap with production costs via leasing revenues. . . " Nikkei
8/22/06 Nippon Oil Corp. will provide Japan Energy Corp. with residential fuel cells on an OEM basis starting next fiscal year "Nippon Oil has developed with Sanyo Electric Co. (6764) a fuel cell that runs on hydrogen extracted from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It has also developed with a kerosene-compatible cell with Ebara Corp. (6361) subsidiary Ebara Ballard Corp. Both are currently leased under the Nippon Oil brand. Cumulative sales are projected to reach a market-leading 435 units by the end of the fiscal year . . ." Nikkei
8/21/06 Hitachi Cable Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd. have developed a direct methanol fuel cell that uses titanium for the separator of the cell "The firms were developing a stainless steel separator to replace graphite, but had a problem with corrosion from acid generated when hydrogen is extracted from methanol. Covering the steel with a thin layer of titanium let them design a fuel cell stack half the size of those made graphite separators." Nikkei
8/22/06 H2FC "Cash Burn Table" Updated
8/22/06 Internet speculation drives up Hoku shares "Hoku Scientific's shares jumped $1.16 per share -- more than 43 percent -- to finish Tuesday at $3.83. Dustin Shindo, CEO of the Kapolei-based company, told PBN he had "no idea" what caused the jump . . ." bizjournals.com
8/22/06 UCI Scientists First To Predict Air Quality Impact Of Small-Scale Power Sources Technique could help regulators develop policies for distributed generation U. of California, Irvine
8/22/06 Hydrogen Power International Announces Second Quarter Financial Results
8/22/06 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. 'dba "HTC Purenergy"' Announces Acquisition Agreement to Acquire BTC BioEnergy Technologies Corp.
8/22/06 Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. Delivers Oxx Power™ Engines to All North American Distributors 2007 Product Lineup Announced
8/22/06 Images: Fuel-cell karts power a 'racing circus' CNET
8/22/06 EFOY Outdoor Box for all year outdoor applications Smart Fuel Cell
8/22/06 Cobasys' Continued Growth Spurs Ohio Business Development Grant
8/22/06 FuelCell Energy cooks up power plant deal with onion grower Bizjournals
8/22/06 Gills Onions, Leading Supplier to $12 Billion Fresh-Cut Produce Market, Buys Power Plants from FuelCell Energy That Will Generate Renewable Electricity from Onion Waste
8/22/06 Ahead of the Bell: Medis Technologies AP
8/22/06 Medis Tech downgraded by Merriman Curhan Ford "Neutral" to "Sell"
8/22/06 NanoLogix Files Four Additional Patent Applications on Hydrogen Bioreactor Methodologies
9/2006 High Hopes for Hydrogen Using hydrogen to fuel cars may eventually slash oil consumption and carbon emissions, but it will take some time Scientific American
8/21/06 Fuel Cells Go Nautical FuelCell Energy receives $2.5M to advance ship-borne power plant Business New Haven
8/21/06 Plug-In Hybrid Consortium Grows Hydrogenics IndustryWeek
8/21/06 Fuel Cell Circuit Dutch company Formula Zero is creating a fuel cell race circuit to generate enthusiasm for emission-free transport gizmag.com via BusinessWeek
8/21/06 Hydrogen highway delayed "The San Carlos stop on the ‘hydrogen highway’ boasted about by energy, state and local officials a year ago is behind schedule but fully funded — it will open a year behind schedule" San Mateo Daily Journal
8/21/06 Jadoo Power Awarded General Atomics Contract for Advanced Fuel Canister Design New Fuel System Can Deliver 10X the Energy Density of Batteries
8/21/06 Demonstration Lab Established at National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation (IFCI)
8/21/06 VIASPACE Subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation Invited to China
8/20/06 London's Metropolitan Police is planning to introduce environmentally-friendly, hydrogen-fuelled police cars to its fleet in the coming years AFP
8/2000 Is America ready for Wind Hydrogen? While flow batteries and other devices can be used to compensate for wind’s intermittent output, it’s difficult to match the investor and political enthusiasm for hydrogen. EarthToys
8/19/06 “Pulse on America” Show to Feature Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center
8/19/06 Dell recall may boost MTI Colonie firm's batteries may become a more attractive alternative "shares of Mechanical Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTY), the parent of MTI Micro, did not not receive an immediate bounce from the Dell news" Albany Times Union (MTI's local newspaper)
8/18/06 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Safety NHA
8/18/06 Intelligent Energy invited to exhibit alongside Statoil in Norway
8/18/06 Hydrogenics Joins Plug-In Hybrid Consortium with an Eye on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plug-In Vehicles
8/17/06 Energy from ceramics micro-SOFCs Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
8/17/06 Dr. Iris Ovshinsky, ECD Ovonics Co-Founder, Vice President and Director, Dies in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
8/17/06 MDTL trading as high as 25.07 today
8/17/06 Greater Columbia Fuel Cell Challenge Releases Request for Proposals in Downtown Innovation Project Plan creates first planned, end-to-end downtown Fuel Cell District
8/17/06 Dutton Associates Announces Investment Opinion: VIASPACE Neutral Rating in Initiating Coverage by Dutton Associates "Dutton Associates received US$35,000 from the Company for 4 Research Reports with coverage commencing on 8/17/06." VIASPACE
8/17/06 Electric Sports Cars Sell Out in First Run "Tesla Motors said it had sold out the proposed inaugural production run of 100 of its two-seat, high-performance roadsters, just three weeks after sales began. Customers, including actor George Clooney, each paid $100,000 in advance to reserve one of the roadsters, scheduled to be built and delivered next year, Tesla said." LA Times
8/17/06 Battery Recall Unveils Bottleneck "Fuel cells still are a long way from commercial use." Wall Street Journal
8/17/06 Merging onto the Hydrogen Highway Bush and Schwarzenegger are behind this emerging new energy source, but is it the fuel of the future? LA City Beat
8/17/06 EFOY 600, new entry-level product of the EFOY fuel cell series, now in stores Smart Fuel Cell
8/17/06 Jadoo Power Awarded Defense Contract for Next Generation Fuel Cell Power System New Jadoo Fuel Cell System Reduces Carry Weight By 70% "Kuchera Defense Systems (KDS) has awarded Jadoo a contract to develop the next evolution in advanced fuel cell system designs. . . . The end goal is the replacement of legacy battery technologies weighing close to 80 lb. with fuel cell power systems weighing 70% less. . . . new fuel canisters will utilize advanced chemical hydrides . . ."
8/17/06 QuestAir to Supply Hydrogen Purification Technology to Synthetic Fuels Plant
8/17/06 Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. Launches Manufacture and Sale of Its Hydrogen and Alternative Fueled Internal Combustion Engines and Gensets
8/17/06 DoCoMo develops advanced fuel cell "carrier aims to commercialize a built-in fuel-cell battery for its third-generation Foma handsets within three years. It also plans to market within one or two years a separate fuel-cell recharge" Asahi Shimbun
8/16/06 Green' energy firm is to expand in Sheffield ITM Power Sheffield Today
8/16/06 Hoku Scientific Completes Installation of Demonstration Fuel Cells for U.S. Navy
8/16/06 ECD Ovonics' Battery Subsidiary Grants Patent License to TMK Power Industries of China
8/16/06 MDTL closes up 9.67% today at $23.24 on volume of 794,427 shares
8/16/06 Alchemy Successfully Integrates its EPC with Fuel Cell and Creates Continuous 115v Power "tests took place at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena during the week of July 26th"
8/16/06 FuelCell Energy Receives $2.5 Million Contract from the Office of Naval Research to Advance High-Efficiency Ship Service Fuel Cell Power Plant Project to Operate High-Efficiency Direct FuelCell(R) Power Plants on Liquid Fuels--Improving the Power Generation Efficiency on Board Ships
8/16/06 Need for Battery Power Runs Into Basic Hurdles of Science "As consumers demand more from notebooks and cellphones, the electronics industry may need a whole new way of thinking about power supplies. The most likely candidates are miniaturized versions of the fuel cells that are being developed for cars. . ." NY Times
8/15/06 Can anything tame the battery flames? Fuel cells and alternative batteries have a chance to go mainstream, thanks to technological improvements and exploding laptops. CNET
8/15/06 A Microscopic Solution to an Enormous Problem "Solar electrolysis converts sunlight into electricity to split water molecules, but until recently solar water splitting devices have proved woefully inefficient. . ." Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
8/15/06 Swagelok Company Joins National Hydrogen Association "provides the alternative fuels market with an expanding line of third-party verified products for alternative fuels service such as tube fittings, filters, high-flow and high-pressure ball valves, and gauges"
8/15/06 Research Peers Inside Hydrogen Fuel Cells "scientists now can conduct detailed surveillance on the comings and goings of water inside hydrogen fuel cells" NIST
8/14/06 Palcan Financial Statements Filed "The Company is presently working with the TSX Venture Exchange to conclude the re-instatement process to resume trading of the Company's shares on the Exchange."
8/15/06 Local Plant Helped Design [GM] Hydrogen-Powered Car "The Sequel, or its sequel, probably won’t be on the market until 2012, at the earliest." 13 WHAM, Rochester
8/14/06 The Chewonki Renewable Hydrogen Project Unveiling Nation’s First Publicly Accessible
Direct High Pressure Hydrogen Energy System; Monday, August 28, 2006; Wiscasset, Maine
8/6/06 Hydrogen gets new lease on life "Come this fall, the North Vancouver-based Hydrogen Technology and Energy Corporation (HTEC) will be cleaning and compressing hydrogen captured from two North Vancouver chemical companies" North Shore News
8/15/06 Korean breakthrough in hydrogen storage "material consists of titanium attached to polyacetylene, an organic polymer formed by a series of acetylene molecules linking together" The Korea Herald
8/15/06 Quantum Delivers Next Generation Hydrogen Storage Tanks to Fuel Cell Bus Manufacturer
8/15/06 Hydrogenics Announces Resignation of Wesley Twiss as Director of the Board
8/14/06 SHEC announces Victor Smith, CEO of Giffels/Ingenium has joined the Board of Directors
8/14/06 HydroGen Corporation Reports Results for the Second Quarter "For the quarter ended June 30, 2006, HydroGen's net loss was $1.54 million"
8/14/06 DOE Announces $1.4 Million for Industry-Laboratory Teams to Study Using Nuclear Energy for Clean Hydrogen Projects Led by Electric Transportation Applications and GE Global Research
8/14/06 MILLENNIUM CELL INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
8/13/06 PPL cools on fuel-cell energy as government funding dries up " . . . Electricity made by a fuel-cell stack typically costs twice as much as power from the regional electric grid, and the gap widens as the cost of natural gas rises, according to Steve Gabrielle, business development manager ofPPL Energy Services. At this early stage, the stacks' main selling points are their independence from the power grid and lack of pollution, not price. . ." Allentown Morning Call See H2FC Update
8/11/06 Baking bread with hydrogen in Antarctica "motive of this project is to reduce the costs associated with the delivery of oil and gas to the Australian bases in Antarctica" blogs.zdnet.com
8/11/06 US Firm Develops Hydrogen Fuel Cell for Hybrid Cars Quantum Fuel Voice of America
8/9/06 Plug Power Quarterly Report sec.gov
8/9/06 Distributed Energy Systems Quarterly Report sec.gov
8/9/06 Hydrogenics: " Second Quarter 2006 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sec.gov
8/8/06 Medis Quarterly Report sec.gov
8/11/06 Neah Power Announces Completion of First Stage of Development Contract with Danfoss Group Global
8/10/06 PolyFuel announces its trading update for the second quarter 2006
8/10/06 GM to Show Off Fuel Cell-Powered Car "The Sequel, which looks like a shrunken minivan and has a range of 300 miles, will be shown to reporters next month in California . . . But production and sale of the Sequel is a long way off. Wagoner wouldn't give a time estimate for when the public could buy one." AP
8/10/06 Dynetek reports 2006 six month and second quarter results "Positive cash flow from operations of $1.4 million for the first six months of 2006 and $0.4 million for the second quarter of 2006"
8/10/06 Hydrogenics Receives American Power Conversion Contract, Financials Not Disclosed
8/10/06 H2FC Update: Hydrogenics
8/10/06 North America's First Solar/Hydrogen Home Now Scheduled for Completion "System Also to Generate Enough Hydrogen to Fuel Homeowner's Car" DESC Renewable Energy International, Inc.
8/10/06 Alameda County Completes California's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plant Chevron-installed [FCEL] unit makes Santa Rita Jail the 'greenest' county facility in the U.S. Chevron Energy Solutions
8/10/06 Hydrogenics Awarded Supply Agreement From American Power Conversion to Deliver Up to 500 Fuel Cell Power Modules for Backup Power Applications "The agreement expires three years from execution, or on the date of delivery of the 500th fuel cell power module supplied under the agreement, whichever occurs first. The contract allows that, if an unanticipated development precludes delivery of the full 500 units, Hydrogenics is entitled to a fair and commensurate consideration."
8/10/06 SatCon Technology Reports Quarterly Results for the Third Quarter Ended July 1, 2006 Net loss for the quarter was $3.5 million, or $0.09 per share, compared with a net loss of $2.3 million, or $0.07 per share, for the same period in fiscal 2005.
8/10/06 SatCon Receives Multi-Million Dollar Order for DC Power Electronics Through Fluor Canada Ltd.; Over 30 MW of Advanced DC Power Electronics to Be Delivered Over the Next Year
8/9/06 Franklin Fuel Cells Reports Successful Tests and Demonstrations on 16 Hydrocarbon Fuels Company’s Proprietary SOFC Technology Shows “Unmatched Fuel Flexibility”
8/9/06 WI Congressman Paul Ryan to Tour Modine Manufacturing to See Fuel Cell Technology, Including Hydrogen Refueling Station Reformer Modine Manufacturing Company
8/9/06 PACIFIC FUEL CELL CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities "proceeds of $338,500 from the sale of 2,417,858 Shares ($0.14 per share)"
8/9/06 VIASPACE Subsidiary Completes Prototype Cartridges for Catalytic Devices International
8/9/06 MTI Reports Second Quarter 2006 Results conference call and webcast today at 10:30 a.m. (ET)
8/8/06 Electric cars lighting up again Tesla Motors USA Today
8/8/06 Acumentrics Inks 38,676-SF Renewal GlobeSt.com
8/14/06 Wall Street's New Love Affair Why some of the world's smartest investors are betting billions on clean energy BusinessWeek
8/8/06 Fuel Cell Today Market Survey: Niche Transport (Part 1) 2006 Fuel Cell Today
8/8/06 System designed to put wastewater to work UPI
8/8/06 Giner Electrochemical Systems Receives Contract to Develop 250W Direct Methanol Cell
8/8/06 Fuelling the future "A five-year project at St Andrews University is creating technologies that will allow the development of a decentralised energy generation system in the UK." Engineer Online
8/8/06 Voller Energy expands further into Australian market with appointment of Ionix as agent for Australia
8/8/06 Hydrogenics appoints new leaders at Belgium facility while Q2 net loss widens "replacing key company leaders at its OnSite Generation business unit in Belgium after new setbacks in months of production issues and delays" CP
8/8/06 Modine Hydrogen Generation Technology Incorporated into a Chevron Hydrogen Energy Station
8/8/06 SatCon Technology to Report FY2006 Third Quarter Results Thursday, August 10, 2006
8/8/06 Medis Technologies Reports Second Quarter Results "net loss was $13,722,000 or $.44 per share based on 31,030,842 weighted average shares, compared to a net loss of $3,745,000 or $.14 per share based on 27,304,890 weighted average shares for the quarter ended June 30, 2005"
8/8/06 Hydrogenics Reports Second Quarter 2006 Results "Net loss was $9.6 million"
8/8/06 Alternative energy sells a good story, but is it just a fad? "Are we on the brink of a new energy world order? Or will the market's love affair with wind power, solar, fuel cells, ethanol and the rest end in tears like every investment fad before it? Is alternative energy the new dotcom?" Telegraph.co.uk
8/7/06 Photos: Verizon's fuel cell project at a large call-switching center and office building in Garden City on Long Island in New York "Each of the seven [UTC PAFC] fuel cells is capable of generating 200 kilowatts" CNET
8/7/06 Verizon heeds call of fuel cells CNET
8/6/06 No fuel like an old fuel cell "It is nice to see social scientists showing interest in technology and innovation. But their credibility plummets when they confuse their energy source with their energy carrier. . ." Science Business
8/4/06 Interview: The Future of Fuel Cells Josh Tosteson, CEO of HydroGen TheStreet.com
8/7/06 CMR Fuel Cells H1 pretax loss widens, says confident of continued good progress AFX
8/7/06 Interim Results for the six-month period ended 30th June 2006 "During the period, the Company spent £1.4m in financing operations and planned capital expenditure." CMR Fuel Cells Plc
8/7/06 July Newsletter and Open Briefing interview with Brendan Dow, CEO Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
8/7/06 FuelCell Energy Donates Emission Credits to Energy 2006 Workshop and Trade Show, Enabling Show to Offset Its Pollution for 3rd Consecutive Year Contribution of FuelCell Energy's emission credits recognized with 2005 General Services Administration's Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation
8/7/06 Millennium Cell to Present at the 2006 Canaccord Adams Summer Seminar
8/7/06 NanoLogix Receives $1 Million to Accelerate Research & Development Activities of Proprietary Alternative Fuel Source
8/7/06 Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc.'s Foresight Affirmed by Ford's Introduction of a Hydrogen-Fueled Engine
8/5/06 S.K. scientists discover matter for hydrogen storage "Professor Lim discovered that the hydrogen can be stored in solid matter in normal temperatures and pressures by attaching a titanium atom to a polymer." The Hankyoreh
8/4/06 Iceland: Energy To Spare, Ideas to Share Voice of America
8/4/06 Secretive hydrogen fuel company, Ion America , raises $103M "Investors in the company include NEA, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mobius Venture Capital. The total funding is now $165 million. . . Ion America's fuel cell generates hydrogen and electricity . . ." SOFC SiliconBeat [company does not appear to have a web site]
8/4/06 Edison teams up with Chevron on hydrogen fuel station Whittier Daily News
8/4/06 MHI Achieves Japan's First SOFC-MGT Combined-Cycle Power Generation JCN
7/5/06 HotModule conquers France Dalkia orders fuel cell system for residential building in Paris "he fuel cell system combines the HotModule system design from MTU CFC Solutions GmbH with Direct FuelCell technology from FuelCell Energy, Inc." MTU CFC Solutions
7/3/06 Fraunhofer ISE and DLR have developed a combined reformer fuel-cell system
8/4/06 Dynetek Industries announces Second Quarter 2006 Financial Results conference call Friday, August 11, 2006 at 7:00 a.m. MST
8/3/06 W2 Energy Inc. to Build 300 HP Rotary Hydrogen Engine
8/3/06 Hydrogen-powered Ford Focus will be exhibited at Nevada County Fair The Union
8/3/06 Speculative Tip: a fuel cell opportunity that could generate a win Ceramic Fuel Cells Citywire
8/3/06 MTI to Discuss 2006 Second Quarter Results and Activities During Conference Call on August 9, 2006
8/2/06 University of Minnesota to develop wind to hydrogen to nitrogen pilot project Tri-State Neighbor
8/2/06 Cruising the Hydrogen Highway Goldstream News Gazette
8/2/06 Cars only part of hydrogen wave "The Vancouver Fuel Cell Vehicle Program — and Victoria’s fuel cell car — is just a tiny piece of the puzzle in place supporting the Hydrogen Highway vision, and the hefty vision to install a hydrogen fueling infrastructure between Victoria and Whistler before the 2010 Olympics games is already well underway." Goldstream News Gazette
8/2/06 Interview with Jeremy Rifkin Creative Loafing Atlanta
8/2/06 Distributed Energy's 2nd Quarter Revenue Up From 1st Quarter investor Conference Call Tomorrow, Thursday, August 3rd, at 11:00AM (Eastern) DESC
8/2/06 UltraCell To Deliver XX25 Micro Methanol Fuel Cell Systems To U.S. Air Force Research Lab in Ohio
8/2/06 IES and Northern Power to Install and Operate Waste-to-Energy Projects Utilizing Advanced Pyrolytic Systems
8/2/06 Good Time To Get Into Clean Energy ETF WilderHill Clean Energy ETFZone via Forbes
8/1/06 QuestAir Reports Third Quarter 2006 Results "Net loss of $2.1 million for the quarter and $7.5 million for the nine months ended June 30"
8/1/06 Woz Prepping for South Pole Trip "Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, will be ditching his Segway temporarily to drive a hydrogen fuel cell-powered Hummer to the South Pole with Buzz Aldrin." Mac Observer
8/1/06 H2 ECOnomy Introduces New Fuel Cell Test Systems
7/31/06 Hydrogen Engine Facility Opens Its Doors Hydrogen Engine Center Hopes To Produce 1,000 Engines Monthly KCCI 8 Des Moines
7/31/06 Stockmarket tough on on-target ITM "Hitting its milestones to date failed to save ITM Power from a market mauling as 19.25p (9.95 per cent) was wiped off its stock on announcement of its full year results to April 30." businessweekly.co.uk
7/28/06 Prices for EFOY fuel cell cartridges reduced by 40% Smart Fuel Cell
8/1/06 Chrysalix Energy Raises $70 Million for its Second Clean Energy Fund
8/1/06 Cablevision Executive Appointed to Plug Power Board of Directors
8/1/06 Medis Technologies Schedules Second Quarter Financial Results and Conference Call Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 11:00 AM ET
8/1/06 VIASPACE Subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation Files Patent Application on Miniature Fuel Cartridge for Micro Fuel Cells

July 2006

7/31/06 ThinkPad founder details future laptop tech "According to Naitoh, fuel-cell technology still has a 'long way to go', particularly in terms of 'longevity'. Not only has Lenovo had an uphill battle with integrating fuel-cells into a traditional battery pack format, it's also found that the performance of a fuel-cell dramatically decreases after a limited number of charge cycles." CNET
7/31/06 Bruce Power announces breakthrough hydrogen economy study with the University of Waterloo "to establish the Bruce Power Hydrogen Economy Development Study at the University of Waterloo"
7/31/06 Hydrogen on Track Trains and industrial equipment now, cars later IEEE Spectrum
7/27/06 'Small Enough to Fit in Breast Pocket' -- Hitachi Unveils Fuel Cell to be Used as Recharger of Mobile Devices "this is merely a conceptual model without using a state-of-the-art membrane electrode assembly (MEA). The suitable fuel concentration has not been determined, either. The development mainly focused on making a pocketable prototype" PHOTOS NikkeiBP
7/27/06 Wynn-Bono Bill to Pave Way For Hydrogen Economy Bill Would Reduce America’s Dependence on Foreign Oil "The bill would establish an independent, bipartisan Commission for the Deployment of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells that would develop a strategic plan for the mass commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cells at the earliest possible date." Congresswoman Mary Bono
7/31/06 Gov. Kulongoski pushes for Oregon 'hydrogen economy'
7/31/06 H2FC Update: HYGS share price likely to fall after additional quality, production problems disclosed
7/31/06 Northern Power Signs $1.3 Million Contract With Direct Drive Systems for Power Converters Used in High-Speed Electric Motors & Generators DESC
7/31/06 Crystal Research Associates, LLC Issues Executive Informational Overview® (EIO®) on Neah Power Systems, Inc. [From disclaimer at the end of this report: "This report has been prepared by Crystal Research Associates, LLC (“CRA”) with the assistance of Neah Power Solutions, Inc. (the “Company”) based upon information provided by the Company. CRA has not independently verified such information. In addition, CRA has been compensated by the Company in cash of US$35,000 and 200,000 warrants for its services in creating this report, for updates, and for printing costs." ]
7/31/06 ITM Power PLC: Full Year Results for the year ended 30 April 2006 "Successfully completed all milestones set out at the time of the IPO . . . Loss for the year increased from £1.2m to £1.9m in line with budget . . . At the year end, the Company held cash at the bank and on deposit of £5.4m. . . Subsequent to the year end, the Company raised £29.4m "
7/31/06 Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited: Trading Update for the Fourth Quarter 2006 "Net cash outflow for the full year was (A$12,208,000 / £4,883,000), down 21% compared with FY05 (A$15,226,000 / £6,090,000) . . . The Company's cash position at the end of the quarter was A$86m (£34.4m) . . ."
7/29/06 That $1 million hydrogen Honda gets few drivers Chula Vista city employees are eligible, but reluctant “I don't want to be the one to crash it.” San Diego Union-Tribune
7/29/06 District to design hydrogen fuel site School to use it for energy education San Diego Union-Tribune
7/28/06 Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE European Debut
7/23/06 Fuel cell technologies - Part 6-1: Micro fuel cell power systems - Safety "Establishes requirements for all fuel cell power systems, units and cartridges to ensure a reasonable degree of safety for normal use, reasonably foreseeable misuse, and consumer transportation of such items. . ." International Electrotechnical Commission
7/28/06 Hydrogenics generation unit still seeing delays Reuters
7/28/06 Hydrogenics Provides Update on Second Quarter Business Activities "We have now identified other operational and production quality issues . . . we will not resume normal activities in our OnSite Generation business unit until all production quality issues are adequately resolved. While we continue to be optimistic that deliveries will return to historic levels in the latter part of the fiscal year, we cannot be definitive as to timing."
7/28/06 Quantum Technologies Reports Fiscal 2006 Financial Results "the Quantum Fuel System segment product sales decreased $1.9 million, or 18%, from $10.7 million in fiscal 2005 to $8.8 million in fiscal 2006 . . . The Company's net loss increased from $13.1 million, or $0.37 a share, for fiscal 2005 to $35.5 million, or $0.67 a share, for fiscal 2006 . . ."
7/28/06 QuestAir Receives Final Order from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering for Refinery Demonstration
7/28/06 Plug Power downgraded by Thomas Weisel from "Outperform" to "Peer Perform"
7/27/06 FST Energy Demonstrates Product that Eliminates Fuel Cell Dependence on Bulky Hydrogen Cylinders
7/27/06 H2FC Table: Short Positions in NASDAQ stocks as of 7/14/06
7/27/06 Plug Power Provides Progress Update and Financial Results for 2nd Quarter "Net loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, was $13.0 million, or $0.15 per share, compared to $10.9 million, or $0.15 per share, for the same period in 2005."
7/27/06 Hydrogenics Receives Order for Fuel Cell Hybrid MidiBus From the Dusseldorf Public Transit Authority First European Public Transit Commercial Contract for Fuel Cell Hybrid MidiBus
7/26/06 South Africa may enter hydrogen economy by 2016 Business in Africa
7/27/06 Interim Pre-Close Statement - Acta heading towards commercialisation
7/27/06 Scientists Refine Process Of Making Hydrogen With Photocatalysts "By using a special pair of photocatalysts and adding a small amount of iron, the water can be completely dissociated, and hydrogen can be generated in quantities up to 10 times greater than current processes. . . The two photocatalysts are bismuth vanadate and strontium titanate with added rhodium. The strontium titanate is also surface-coated with ruthenium." Nikkei
7/27/06 Water Car in Pipeline "Experts at the University of Minnesota and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have found that water reacting with the element boron produces hydrogen." Daily Record
7/27/06 Mazda to show RX-8 Hydrogen RE at Norway's ONS2006 Exhibition
7/26/06 Ford producing hydrogen-powered V10 for use in shuttle buses Automotive News
7/26/06 Ballard foresees fuel cells profits "in the next couple of years, chief executive John Sheridan said Wednesday" CP
7/26/06 Microcell receives new investment Triangle TechJournal
7/26/06 Development of hydrogen fuel cells slow but steady "Researchers have reduced the high-volume cost of automotive fuel cells from $275 per kilowatt in 2002 to $110 per kilowatt in 2005 and lessened the cost of producing hydrogen from natural gas. But Garman said more research is required to meet the cost target of $30 per kilowatt, improve hydrogen storage capacity and lower the expense of producing hydrogen." Reliable Plant
7/26/06 Silvestri named new president of Plug Power "has been the company's chief operating officer, replaces CEO Roger Saillant as president . . . details about the changes would be provided Thursday during the company's conference call announcing Plug's earnings"
7/26/06 Millennium Cell Reports Second Quarter Results
7/26/06 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Names Sean Collins as Vice President of the Display Devices and Components Business Unit "Collins will focus on expanding the [Advanced Technologies Group (ATG)], which is comprised of two new strategic product lines: Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) and Surface-Conduction Electron-Emitter Displays (SED). Both product areas are positioned to play a key role in the future direction and growth of Toshiba Corporation and TAEC."
7/26/06 Market fuels hydrogen power timeline "U.S. officials and automotive industry leaders have agreed that hydrogen fuel is the long-term solution to reducing the country's oil dependence, but continue to debate whether the U.S. timeline for developing alternative fuels is aggressive enough." UPI
7/26/06 High-tech hydrogen scooter designed to sell clean technology Delft University of Technology
7/26/06 Ballard Power narrows loss, shares jump Reuters
7/26/06 Jadoo Power and Millennium Cell to Develop Second Generation Power System for U.S. Military Jadoo Power Selects Millennium Cell as Subcontractor to SOCOM Program
7/26/06 Short positions in NASDAQ stocks as of 7/14/06 NASDAQ [MDTL short position up 13.27% to an all time high of 6,434,997]
7/26/06 Ballard Power Systems Trims 2Q Loss on Increased Focus Beyond Automotive Market AP
7/26/06 Ballard Announces 2006 Second Quarter Results "net loss to $17.3 million, a 41% improvement from $29.5 million in [Q2] 2005"
7/25/06 Solvay/Umicore Joint Venture Commences Production of Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Fuel Cells
7/25/06 Fuel cell project to apply for EU funding Umicore and Solvay develop electrocatalysts with polymer membranes
7/25/06 Hydrogenics Receives Order for Three 12 kW Fuel Cell Power Modules for Asian Telecom Market
7/25/06 Neah Power Joins Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group
7/25/06 VIASPACE Files Patent Application on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Humidity Measurement Instrument
7/25/06 Boeing has tested a hydrogen-fuelled propulsion system for a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned air vehicle that would stay aloft for 10 days Flight
7/24/06 Plans under way to grow the fuel of the future in "hydrogen farms" in Wales "aims to release hydrogen contained in fast-growing willow trees" Western Mail
7/24/06 Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a new storage system to hold large quantities of hydrogen fuel "Jena and his team describe the theoretical composition of a material – a lithium-coated buckyball – that may have the potential to serve as a storage vessel for hydrogen atoms"
7/24/06 Power cells to the people "Fraunhofer researchers are working to make multi-fuel, high temperature ceramic fuel cells affordable on the mass market for use as portable power generators." e4engineering
7/24/06 Medis Technologies Files SEC form 8-K options grants to executive offices and directors "All of such options shall vest on July 18, 2007, shall expire at the close of business on July 18, 2010 and shall be exercisable at a price of $20.98 per share"
7/24/06 HydroGen Corporation Reaches Key Milestones in First Half of 2006 Company Achieves Technical, Manufacturing, Personnel and Financing Goals
7/24/06 FuelCell receives federal funding Company testing hydrogen power " The company expects to begin deploying the technology for industrial use in about two years. Company officials eventually hope to use the hydrogen for cars as well." AP
7/24/06 Researchers drop fuel cell bomb shell "One of the UK's biggest funders of economic research has backed a report which claims development of fuel cells is being stifled because car manufacturers and power generators are scared of the long-term implications." edie news
7/24/06 The Largest Product Line of Fuel Cell Research Equipment Now Available Online at FuelCell.com
7/24/06 Acumentrics Receives Department of Energy Research Award for Novel Fuel Cell Heat Exchanger
7/24/06 Hydrogenics Receives Order for HyPM'R' Fuel Cell Power Pack from Japan HyPM FCPP to be Integrated into Class 1 Forklift
7/24/06 Lawmakers hope to pave the way for a hydrogen-fueled Hawaii Fuel-cell vehicles are under development in California Honolulu Star-Bulletin
7/23/06 Fuel cells, a neglected clean source of energy "re-investment in nuclear technology is likely to squeeze out the investment necessary to make fuel cells competitive with existing energy sources and with other non-nuclear alternative energy options" Economic and Social Research Council
7/23/06 Hydrogen-fueled pickups revealed ". . . The pickups are a part of a hydrogen-fueled vehicle test program Chevrolet has for its Silverados in California . . . hydrogen fuel will not be available until the fall, and in the meantime E-85 will be used for fuel . . ." Minot Daily News (ND)
7/23/06 Chinese automobiles are on way, with fuel cells planned to follow Washington Post via Boston Globe
7/22/06 Irish firm revolutionises the golf cart "Mocad, a Cork-based company" Irish Examiner
7/21/06 Museum lights way in fuel cell usage Angstrom Power Victoria News
7/22/06 Hydrogen event a boon for Columbia "he National Hydrogen Association’s decision to hold its 2009 annual meeting in Columbia [South Carolina]" The State
7/22/06 IdaTech to stay in Bend After buyout, British firm director 'highly impressed' with current facility Bend Bulletin
7/22/06 Chinese company starts small with hydrogen-powered car "will begin sales of a tiny hydrogen fuel-cell car, complete with its own miniature solar-powered refueling station. The toy is a step toward introducing the technology to the public and making it commercially viable." AP
7/22/06 Volvo working on hydrogen based 'fuel cell' tech Daily News & Analysis, India
7/21/06 European PEFC Forum Series Discontinued ". . . [P]eople do not need hydrogen. They need electricity from fuel cells. Hydrogen becomes a transport medium for electrical energy. Consequently, electricity from hydrogen fuel cells will always be more costly than power from the grid. In fact, the direct distribution of electricity to the consumer by wire is about four times more efficient than electricity distribution by hydrogen. . . By laws of physics, hydrogen can never win against its own energetic origin. In other words, a "hydrogen economy" can never compete with an "electron economy" in a free market. . . [S]ustainability requires energy efficiency. This essential criterion cannot be met by a wasteful hydrogen economy. . ." European Fuel Cell Forum via Fuel Cell Today (Johnson Matthey) [This press release is not currently available on the PEFC Forum web site. H2FC has archived it here in case Fuel Cell Today decides to remove it from their site. H2FC Ed.]
7/21/06 FuelCell Energy Touts Progress in Hydrogen Power AP
7/21/06 Hoku's income in first quarter down 8 percent Honolulu Star-Bulletin
7/21/06 SatCon Receives over $1 Million in New Fuel Cell Inverter Orders "for use on sub-megawatt and megawatt-class fuel cells designed and manufactured by FuelCell Energy"
7/20/06 IDACORP Announces Sale of IDACORP Technologies, Inc. "IDACORP Technologies, Inc. owns over 99% of the membership units of IdaTech LLC, a global fuel cell solutions developer and manufacturer."
7/20/06 Fuel Cell Developer IdaTech, LLC Acquired by UK-Based Investec Group Investments Limited IdaTech
7/20/06 Councilman LaBonge, LADWP Dedicate High-Efficiency, Clean and Reliable Fuel Cell Power Plant at the L.A. Zoo "the LADWP Zoo Fuel Cell was manufactured by United Technologies Corp."
7/20/06 Hoku Scientific, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2007 Results
7/20/06 Bruce Power CEO urges hydrogen options Calls for study on how nuclear power can help Guelph Mercury
7/20/06 Business in the Beltway: Generating Hydrogen, Battling Earmarks "Lately, however, that grant money has become a source of frustration for H2Gen. Why? The appropriations process. Earmarks, Rush explains, have crowded the federal government's hydrogen budget. . ." Forbes
7/20/06 Plug Power to Announce Second Quarter Results Thursday, July 27, 2006
7/20/06 Neah Power Expands Technical Staff
7/20/06 SatCon Announces $12 Million Financing Transaction
7/20/06 Voller Appoints of Chief Technology Officer
7/19/06 H-trap "The greatest obstacle to the development of hydrogen-powered cars is the lack of a system for safe, efficient and convenient on-board storage of hydrogen" e4engineering
7/19/06 Millennium Cell to Host Second Quarter Conference Call Thursday, July 27
7/19/06 Zero to 60 in 4 Seconds, Totally From Revving Batteries " . . . two-seat Roadster that will sell for $85,000 to $100,000 . . . uses lithium-ion batteries . . . and carries about three times the energy the EV-1 did, although the battery pack weighs only about 900 pounds; the original EV-1 battery pack weighed more than 1,100 pounds. . . avoids gasoline at $3 a gallon. At the national average retail price for electricity and fuel economy of 200 watt-hours per mile, it will go 150 miles on the price of a gallon of unleaded regular. . ." NY Times
7/18/06 UK selected as test bed for first battery operated car Cenex
7/19/06 UTC Power to Design Fuel Cell for Spanish Submarine
7/19/06 Millennium Cell Joins University of South Carolina Fuel Cell Center
7/19/06 Amid high gas prices, Americans try hydrogen "select group of government workers, academics and individuals testing hydrogen-powered vehicles in demonstration projects across the country" AP
7/18/06 New hydrogen plant near Boise delivers first shipment today "Ultimately hydrogen could replace gasoline as a preferred power source for vehicles, but the costs aren't yet competitive. The cost would equate to more than $13 a gallon, Griffith said. But as the cost of oil goes up and more hydrogen is produced, costs could drop by half or more" Idaho Statesman
7/18/06 Bruce Power takes leadership role in building Canada's hydrogen economy Duncan Hawthorne appointed to Board of Canadian Hydrogen Association
7/18/06 Big tests for fuel cells coming in 2007 interview with MTI Micro CEO CNET
7/18/06 Councilmember LaBonge, LADWP Dedicate Energy Efficient, Clean Fuel Cell Power Plant at the L.A. Zoo
7/18/06 Toyota-Hino Fuel Cell Bus to Serve Central Japan International Airport (Centrair) and Vicinity
7/18/06 Berlin wants 250 hydrogen buses UPI
7/18/06 In China, fuel-cell technology is a matter of policy Detroit News
7/18/06 Hydrogenics Receives Contracts From Linde AG for Four HyPM® Fuel Cell Power Packs to be Integrated into Class 1 Forklifts and Airport Tow Tractors
7/18/06 Hydrogen fuel cells for cars 'on track' for 2020 AP
7/18/06 BP and GE to Develop Hydrogen Power Plants and Technologies General Electric
7/18/06 Ballard Announces Second Quarter 2006 Conference Call Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 7:00 a.m. PST
7/18/06 Distributed Energy Systems Schedules Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter Results Thursday, August 3rd, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time
7/18/06 U.S. Congress Urged to Support Portable Fuel Cells to Catalyze Broad Adoption of Fuel Cell Technology PolyFuel CEO Testifies to Senate Committee That Experience Gained in Supplying Real, Commercial Markets Will Speed Innovation Over the Long Term PolyFuel
7/18/06 Protonex Announces Second U.S. Air Force Contract Award for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Power and Key Additions to Board of Directors
7/18/06 JumpStart Invests in Contained Energy "a direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC) company"
7/18/06 New twist on fuel cells Carbon version inspires investors in Cleveland The Plain Dealer
7/17/06 Viaspace Subsidiary Signs Fuel Cell Cartridge Manufacturing Agreement with Japanese Company
7/17/06 HydroGen Corporation Announces Results of Annual Meeting
7/17/06 Ford Launches Production of Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines for Delivery to Customers "The supercharged 6.8-liter V-10 engine will power Ford's E-450 hydrogen fueled shuttle buses. The buses are scheduled to be delivered to fleet customers later this year"
7/17/06 Modine Introduces New Green Technology, with Fuel Cells and CO2, to Help Truckers Cut Emissions and Save Money
7/17/06 Neah Power Announces Prototype Delivery Schedule "breadboard prototype incorporating the components necessary to prove functionality"
7/17/06 Proton's Hydrogen-Flow Control System Receives Industrial Product Innovation Award
7/17/06 Telefonica Moviles to Deploy Plug Power Fuel Cells in Venezuela Plug Power
7/17/06 Ceramic Fuel Cells Achieves Key Further European Safety Approval
7/16/06 G8 seeks fuel savings, but no big U.S. cuts Bush administration blocks call for higher vehicle efficiency Reuters
7/15/06 B.C. sheds light on new hydrogen technology -- literally "The B.C. government is trying to shed some light on fuel cell technology by spending $25,000 to outfit staff at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria with flashlights powered by hydrogen." probably from Angstrom Power. Vancouver Sun
7/16/06 Focusing on Fuel Cells "companies plan to provide fuel cells for commercial developments seeking approval from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund" Connecticut Post
7/15/06 A Portable (and Squeezable) Way to Recharge Medis NY Times
7/15/06 Florida Tech boat making some waves Four-student team designed craft powered by hydrogen energy Florida Today
7/15/06 Don’t bet on CNG, Auto Inc tells govt "Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) has recommended that the government should take steps to ensure availability of hydrogen, under-lining its importance as the fuel for the future while terming CNG as a short-term measure." Indian Express
7/14/06 Request for stakeholder consultation on a preliminary draft proposal for a regulation on hydrogen powered motor vehicles European Commission
7/13/06 Hydrogen cars to hit the road by 2015? CNET
7/13/04 European Commission plan to promote hydrogen cars EurActiv.com
7/14/06 ENrG debuts new fuel cell facility "In 2004, ENrG received a $3.3 million award from National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST received 100 proposals for awards and funded only 30. . . company also received $500,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority" The Tonawanda News
7/14/06 Fuel cells: The future alternative energy Ansaldo Fuel Cells UPI
7/14/06 July 2006 issue of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Safety
7/14/06 Zacks Bear of the Day: Energy Conversion Devices (ENER)
7/14/06 An Energetic Future With Hydrogen "Across the industry, there’s a shortage of people that have the advanced education or technical experience needed in the hydrogen industry . . . Millennium Cell is one company that has been finding that the supply of workers with adequate training is not meeting demand." AAAS
7/14/06 Antarctic camps trial hydrogen power Sydney Morning Herald
7/14/06 NTT DoCoMo and Aquafairy to Develop Micro Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell for FOMA Handsets NTT DoCoMo Spec sheet
7/14/06 Coverage initiated on Energy Conversion by CIBC Wrld Mkts "Sector Outperform"
7/14/06 New Ceres partnership with Rolls Royce and Johnson Matthey to address UK's long-term sustainable power needs Ceres Power Holdings plc
7/13/06 The Hydrogen Car -- Find Out What It's All About WGAL.com
7/13/06 Tim Leuliette to Discuss Hydrogen Power and Energy Independence at National Press Club Newsmakers Event Metaldyne
7/13/06 Check out a Ford Focus that runs on a hybrid electric/hydrogen engine CNET
7/13/06 Hydrogen car tech revs up Photo Gallery CNET
7/13/06 Hydrogenics Corporation: New Project Supports Advancement of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology for Lift Trucks " . . . demonstration project . . . funding, subject to final contract negotiations"
7/13/06 Department of Energy Selects DaimlerChrysler for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee DaimlerChrysler
7/13/06 Fuel cells fan out Jadoo CNET
7/13/06 MTI Micro to Present at Energy Tech Investor Conference
7/12/06 SEC hardens soft dollar rules, eyes short sales "proposed amendments would extend the crackdown by reducing the number of short positions that can remain open without borrowed shares being delivered, and by narrowing a related exception that had been granted to market makers" Reuters
7/12/06 Fuel Cell Industry Hosts Congressional EXPO Capitol Hill Will Get First-Hand Look at Industry Progress US Fuel Cell Council
7/12/06 Lt. Governor Announces Installation of Alternative Energy Systems at NYSERDA Headquarters Plug Power
7/12/06 New UN Model Transport Regulations to Include Millennium Cell Fuel Cartridges
7/11/06 Fuel cells planned on mill site FCEL Connecticut Post
7/11/06 Transport Regulations Update - UN Model Regulations "UNSCOE has approved the creation of new UN Model Regulations (dangerous goods list entries, UN shipping numbers, proper shipping names, packing instructions and special provisions) for fuel cell cartridges containing class 4.3 (water reactive) and class 8 (corrosive) materials. . ." Millennium Cell
7/11/06 Linde to Market Proton's On-Site Hydrogen Generating Systems in Europe & South America
7/10/06 Introducing America's First Solar Hydrogen Home "The home was built utililizing a hydrogen based storage system that incorporated a HOGEN RE generator." Proton Energy Systems
7/11/06 Hoku Fined by EPA for Waste Violations Hoku Scientific Settles With EPA by Agreeing to Pay a $14,200 Fine for Waste Violations AP
7/11/06 Nine NHA Members named to Department of Energy's Hydrogen Technical Advisory Council NHA
7/11/06 Hydrogenics (NASDAQ:HYGS) trading at 52-week and 4.5-year lows yahoo
7/11/06 FuelCell Energy Completes Successful Demonstration of 'On-the-Fly' Dual Fuel Operation with Standard Propane
7/11/06 Ener1 Fuel Cell Company Launches Humidifier Product Utilizes More Durable, Nafion(R)-free Fiber Material
7/11/06 Voller Energy Group PLC has signed an MOU with Conergy AG, Europe’s leading systems suppliers of renewable energy "Voller and Conergy to work together to develop the market for fuel cell generators used in small-scale off-grid applications"
7/11/06 ITM Power Plc to announce final results for the year ended 30 April 2006 on Monday 31 July 2006
7/10/06 PolyFuel announces its trading update for the second quarter 2006
7/10/06 PolyFuel confident will be able to deliver on its FY key objectives AFX
7/10/06 Fuel Cell Membrane Provider PolyFuel Receives ISO 9001 Certification
7/2006 The Latest Fuel Cell News In Japan Fuel Cell Development Information Center
7/10/06 Hydrogen wasteful way to store energy "Hydrogen, the ultimate clean fuel, may not be very suitable as a conduit of renewable energy because it is wasteful and there are better alternatives, scientists said last week." Reuters
7/10/06 In praise of ... hydrogen bikes "Intelligent Energy's ENV bike" The Guardian
7/10/06 Many 'Green' Companies Might Cost You Your Green ENER, ESLR Bloomberg
7/9/06 ENrG's work in fuel cells could help curb oil use SOFC Buffalo News
7/8/06 DeWine calls plant tour 'exciting' Ovonics to test hydrogen fuel tanks for use in new nonpolluting vehicles Akron Beacon Journal
7/6/06 SHEC Concludes Hydrogen Workshop for "SHEC Station #1"
7/8/06 Area hopes to catch a lift off fuel cell event Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
7/7/06 Hydrogen future expands for Hy9 "Hopkinton's Hy9 Corp., a maker of hydrogen purification technologies originally founded in 1998, has closed a Series A funding for $2.3 million from a syndicate of unnamed investors." bizjournals
7/7/06 Industry Stakeholders prepare for the Joint Technology Initiative on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association
7/7/06 Renewable energy lab opens in Golden Rocky Mountain News
7/7/06 Rod Aycox Teams Up With Atlantic Fuel Cell, LLC to Explore the Use of Fuel Cell Technology Select Management Resources
7/7/06 Officials hold off fuel cell proposal "A Colorado-based company that wants to build a natural gas-fired fuel cell here to generate 1.2 megawatts of electricity received a polite "Not now, thanks" from city officials Thursday." Alliance Power Inc. Connecticut Post
7/7/06 Sen. Mike DeWine to Tour Akron Research Facility "the Ovonics Hydrogen Storage Testing facility" Akron Beacon Journal
7/6/06 U.S. Department Of Energy Publishes Research Roadmap For Developing Cleaner Fuels "for the development of cellulosic ethanol as an alternative to gasoline" USDoE
7/6/06 Hoku Scientific Announces Earnings Conference Call for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2007 Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern
7/6/06 Plug Power employees take in Gore flick Plug Power Inc. footed the bill to send 280 employees to the movies Thursday bizjournals.com
7/6/06 United Solar Ovonic Signs Multi-Year Cooperative Agreements with Spazio Energia and Sunerg Solar for Supply of 46 MW of Photovoltaic Laminates
7/6/06 Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) Awarded NSF SBIR Phase I Grant for Increasing Methane in Diesel Fuel Reformate "Methane in the reformate is helpful to solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) systems, since its utilization in the stack reduces stack temperature and increases stack life."
7/6/06 Millennium Cell Awarded U.S. Army Phase II SBIR Contract to Develop Modular Power System with ReliOn Department of Defense Awards $1.36 Million to Develop Carbonate Hydrogen Generating System
7/6/06 FuelCell Energy Advances Cost-Efficient Method of Separating Hydrogen
7/6/06 Distributed Energy Conducting CFO Search as VP-Finance Prepares to Leave Company
7/6/06 HBK Eyed in Second Shorting Transaction "The [SEC] is looking into a series of short sales made by the $7 billion hedge fund in the days before HBK invested in a $58 million private sale of stock by a company called Plug Power" thestreet.com
7/6/06 Quantum Technologies Closes $12.5 Million in Private Placement of Common Stock With Institutional Investors
7/5/26 LSB Industries, Inc. Subsidiary Licenses Potential Hydrogen Production Technology From AirGen Corporation - Will Study Feasibility for Commercial Ammonia Production "The technology is in the early, developmental stage and has not been proven by LSB to have commercial value."
7/5/06 Ballard shares rise on China development deal Reuters
7/5/06 Oil hits record above $75 on US demand Reuters
7/5/06 Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. Announces the Sale of a 50kW Hydrogen Fueled Generator Set to Xcel Energy
7/5/06 Former Chairman and Chief Executive of Toshiba America Joins Millennium Cell Board of Directors
7/5/06 The Big Idea: An Energy Tax The Naked Economist
7/5/06 Nuvera Installs First Forza™ Fuel Cell System at a Chlorate Plant
7/5/06 ITM Power Announces Hydrogen Combustion Development Programme
7/5/06 Ballard Announces Further Progress in China Signs Memorandum of Understanding and Fuel Cell Supply Agreement with Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle Powertrain Co., Ltd.
7/4/06 Burlington gets region's first hydrogen station AP
7/4/06 Smog Buster: Honda Says SoCal Experiment Paving Way for More Hydrogen Cars Edmunds
7/4/06 CMR Fuel Cells to create powerful presence in Japan with Intralink's Surrogate Sales Program
7/3/06 Fuel cell team targets certification "Aviation fuel cell researchers have launched discussions with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) . . . efforts are continuing to reduce the weight and volume of a 400-600kW (540-800hp) fuel cell" Flight International
7/3/06 Protonex Technology Corporation: First Day of Dealings on AIM
7/3/06 Ceres Power secures third contract with BOC, advancing moves into off-grid power generation
7/2/06 Power your iPod with hydrogen "Voller’s fuel cell battery charger gives our mundane existence a much-needed injection of sci-fi . . . It’ll run a laptop for roughly 12-hours on one canister of hydrogen, or a USB gadget (an iPod, for example) for the best part of a week. . . . one ABC will set you back £4000. A hydrogen canister costs £200, but the refilling mechanism is a more manageable £25 . . . " Stuff Magazine [The spec sheet for the Voller "Automatic Battery Charger (ABC)" system reveals that the unit weighs 9 kilograms (19.84 pounds). Not exactly ideal for use with handheld devices like iPods or cellphones, or even with laptops.]
6/29/06 US: Boehlert Calls Oil Drilling Bill Process a "Travesty" "For the first time in more than a generation, we are going to vote on opening the entire coastline of the United States to oil and natural gas drilling. You’d think that would be considered a rather major matter that requires some thoughtful discussion. But that’s not how we’re handling it. . . this bill doesn’t just allow off-shore drilling. It changes all the rules on approving oil drilling in areas where it’s allowed. It changes all the maps for state marine boundaries. Did you know that? Probably not, because the new maps aren’t publicly available. . ." Energy Bulletin
7/2006 Traveling Light Micro fuel cells could give soldiers less weight to carry. Protonex, SFC IEEE Spectrum
7/1/06 250 jobs coming to Billerica Alternative-energy firm Nuvera Fuel Cells to open new world headquarters Lowell Sun
7/1/06 'Hydrail' picking up steam Retiree is leading the push for a commuter train run on fuel cells Charlotte Observer
7/2006 Efficient Hydrogen Generation to Boost Fuel Cell Output "the compact reformer developed by Casio Computer is a water vapor reformer, extracting hydrogen from methanol heated to 280." Nikkei Electronics Asia
7/2006 Fuel Cell Buzz Starts to Become Reality "After years in development, fuel cell technology that promises longer usage life for portable devices is getting closer to the production stage." Antig Nikkei Electronics Asia